1888 in birding and ornithology
# 1888 in birding and ornithology

## Events

* Joseph Jackson Lister serves as volunteer naturalist on the surveying voyage of HMS Egeria to the Indian Ocean.
* Death of Hermann von Rosenberg

## Publications

* George Ernest Shelley On the Hornbills of the Ethiopian Region Ibis 1888: 47-70 online
* Richard Bowdler Sharpe Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dkcovered by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mounts of Kina Balu, Northern Borneo Ibis 1888 :383-396
* Edward Bartlett "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches " five parts published in 1888–89

Ongoing events

* Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman 1879–1904. Biologia Centrali-Americana . Aves
* Richard Bowdler Sharpe Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum London,1874-98.
* Anton Reichenow, Jean Cabanis, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
* Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
* The Auk online BHL
* The Ibis
